Island in the Net by Khürt Williams
Technology and Photography Musings. Established circa 2000.
> With all the fuss over the iBooks Author license agreement, what has been missed is that Apple is focusing the entire initiative on the education market, which is rather different from the publishing world in general.
TidBITS Opinion: Examining iBooks Author from the Publisher Perspective
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Young children are like sponges, full of optimistic curiosity that fuels their confidence to be creative. But as they get older, they lose that magical openness, and, for many, the door to creativity closes very early. It starts in elementary school when the need to fit in comes from peers and parents, to get the grades and tick the boxes. Taking risks and asking why becomes less important than knowing the answer and conforming. In a world where ticking boxes is rewarded, we’re not encouraging people to come to work with that passionate childlike curiosity because it’s not encouraged in our education system.I’ve got to start the habit of embracing my ignorance and curiosity. Don’t be a know-it-all.
Thiel isn’t totally alone in the first part of his education bubble assertion. It used to be a given that a college education was always worth the investment– even if you had to take out student loans to get one. But over the last year, as unemployment hovers around double digits, the cost of universities soars and kids graduate and move back home with their parents, the once-heretical question of whether education is worth the exorbitant price has started to be re-examined even by the most hard-core members of American intelligentsia. via Michael Immordino
I often worry about how I'm going to help my kids pay for college and still save for retirement. My wife and I joke that we might have to retire somewhere cheap, like the South Pole. It took us years to pay off our student loans. It might take our kids a lifetime to pay off theirs. I'm planning to steer them in the direction of entrepreneurship.
